Is that a scanning electron microscope? “This’ll do, pig, this’ll do,” I murmur.
“Excuse me?”
“Sorry. Film reference, wasn’t meant as an insult.”
“Ah. I see.” His tone tells me he clearly doesn’t. I briefly consider educating him, but explaining a movie
about a talking pig who wants to be a sheepdog to a Japanese vampire just isn’t all that high on my to-do
list.

Author: D.D. Barant